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While definitely not "superior" in every way, it was more precise also with a finger (at least on the n900; other devices had worse quality resistive screens). So you for example could draw or hit small buttons much more easily.

For capacitive screens you instead have to add another digitizer layer by wacom or n-trig to be able to draw, which took a while and still is not common enough. That said, bad quality resistive screens were much, much more frustrating to use than bad capacitive screen.